[ADXA] My apologies - I broke 6 meters!

[Nick Kennedy]

You sure did.  After all this chatter about 6 meters and FT8 I decided to
try FT8 for the first time in the year 2021 and on 6 meters.  Heard nothing
but noise and W5JAY.

Maybe tomorrow.

73

Nick, WA5BDU

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 5:38 PM Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've always been very casual about 6 meters but have paid attention to it
> more in the last week or so.  It seems to be open 24 hours a day.  It's
> open when I go to bed and it's open when I get up.  If I'm watching FT8, I
> get 20-30 decodes per sequence.  Europeans are crazy good and I've worked
> several of them with 30-40 watts on FT8 to a 3 element yagi up 14 feet.
>
> The yagi is sandwiched between antennas for 144 and 432 Mhz.  It was put
> there as a temporary expedient.  I wondered how much the other antennas
> were affecting it so I put up a separate 3 element yagi on another pole all
> by itself for comparison.
>
> The band was a little puny when I went out to do this, and now it is
> pretty much closed.  It seems weird to turn to 50.313 and not hear a
> cacophony of hooting signals!
>
> OK, it has to close occasionally, I know.  We wouldn't want to wear out
> the E-layer.  Let's hope this is just temporary and it comes back so I can
> play with my antennas :)   Next year - at least 5 elements up 40 feet and a
> little power.  Any possibility of F2 this fall and winter?
>
> On the good side, I've worked a handful of East coast stations on 2 meters
> on CW, SSB, and FT8. That's with 8 elements up 18 feet and 100 watts, so
> things have definitely been lively.
>
> 73,
> Dennis
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